I don't have much to say about Meraki other than that I was underwhelmed by the hardware during the test run we did. Obviously, based on other people's experience, your milage may vary! Wifi is complex, and performance depends on lots of things..from density of the walls/floors to the number of other wifi networks in your proximity and how well/poorly they're configured.
In terms of Unifi, you want the UAP Pro access points. The basic ones are single band, are slower, have much worse range and capacity. We currently put a couple on our network to see if they could help improve some of our weaker areas but most devices would "prefer" to connect t the dual band Pro access points. You def want to run the controller software, it makes a huge difference. One more thing - I've been meaning to post here but we recently upgraded to Unifi's EdgeRouter Lite <http://www.amazon.com/EdgeRouter-ERLite-3-512MB-Ethernet-Router/dp/B00CPRVF5K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434996297&sr=8-1&keywords=ubiquiti+router&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011> and it's AMAZING. It's incredibly fast, even when our network has a few hundred devices on it. I honestly cannot believe it's less than $100. It's a little complicated to get up and running, but worth the effort! -Alex ------------------ *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/podcast On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Jeran Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you all, especially Alex for all the helpful info on just about > every aspect of putting a cowork space together. > > I have read several threads about Unifi and also some that chose Meraki. > It sounds like the overwhelming majority agree that Unifi is the best > solution from a cost perspective. I would love to hear what some people > think about Meraki, as GCUC had several people raving about the product, > but licensing fees seem to price out a majority of spaces. > > Also, with Unifi what is the primary difference between the basic Unifi > and the Unifi Pro system. The basic is around $80/unit with Pro closer to > $200. Thanks again to all of you for your help. This board has been > extremely educational for me over the last 12 months and although I rarely > communicate, I definitely appreciate all the helpful information! > > Jeran > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
